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The Anneke Borren Collection — Cordy's
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| Auction House: | Cordy's | Number of lots recorded: | 435 |
| Sale Title: | The Anneke Borren Collection | Lots with images: | 433 |
| Auction Location: | Auckland | Prices available: | 379 |
| Date: | 31-Oct-2017 |
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Andrew van der Putten, bottle, early 1970s. Diameter 26 x 25 cm. A.B.: 'The 1970s Andrew v.d. Putten jar is my favourite, straight out of a Rembrandt painting
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Set Sue Newton, celadon teawares, two mugs, two 'feather' cups, a jug, a teapot, a bowl with spoon and a larger bowl
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Heather Grouden, 'Four post nuclear buzzards' (entitled by Simon Manchester), 1991, largest 14.5 x 11.5 cm
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A large clay jar (olla) from the Amazon Shipibo people (Peru), maze-like geometric painted surface decoration, collected 1977, 16.5 x 28 cm. A.B.: 'The Shibipo pots were bought from the Peruvian villagers, who made them, when we were travelling the whole of the Amazon river length, in 1977-788. Their language became ' hieroglyphic ' within their images, their brushes the chewed ends of small branches. They are now mass produced for the international market, thereby losing their meaning, and precision care.…
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A clay jar (olla) from the Amazon Shipibo people (Peru), decorated with two faces, unglazed but waterproofed with tree resins, collected 1977, 18.5 x 18 cm. A.B.: 'The Shibipo pots were bought from the Peruvian villagers, who made them, when we were travelling the whole of the Amazon river length, in 1978. Their language became ' hieroglyphic ' within their images, their brushes the chewed ends of small branches. They are now mass produced for the international market, thereby losing their meaning, and…
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Ecuadorian clay bowl, collected 1977. 16.5 x 7 cm. A.B.: 'Owen (Mapp) and I travelled in the U.S., Central, and South America, for nearly two years, 1977 and 1978. These pieces we collected and found. Ecuador, at the time, had a rule on antique pots, which meant that, (after) showing them to the authorities, if their musea had enough examples of a shape, they allowed it to be taken out of the country. These items arrived legitimately into New Zealand
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An early Inca urpu (storage amphora), collected from the Lake Titicaca region by a friend of Anneke Borren's father who lived in Bolivia. Reputedly 15thC. 20 x 27 x 40 cm. With a later clay drinking cup. AB: 'Owen (Mapp) and I travelled in the U.S., Central, and South America, for nearly two years, 1977 and 1978. The largest pre-Columbian pot, from the Tiahuanaco period (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiwanaku) around lake Titicaca, was offered to the then director of Philips Electrical in La Paz, Bolivia,…
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A pre-Columbian clay funnel, decorated with geometric designs, collected Ecuador, rebuilt from archaeological fragments. 13.5 x 18 cm. A.B.: 'Owen (Mapp) and I travelled in the U.S., Central, and South America, for nearly two years, 1977 and 1978. These pieces we collected and found. Ecuador, at the time, had a rule on antique pots, which meant that, (after) showing them to the authorities, if their musea had enough examples of a shape, they allowed it to be taken out of the country. These items arrived…
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A pre-Columbian Ecuadorian pottery pedestal bowl, negative decorated, 18 x 13 cm. A.B.: 'Owen (Mapp) and I travelled in the U.S., Central, and South America, for nearly two years, 1977 and 1978. These pieces we collected and found. Ecuador, at the time, had a rule on antique pots, which meant that, (after) showing them to the authorities, if their musea had enough examples of a shape, they allowed it to be taken out of the country. These items arrived legitimately into New Zealand
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A pre-Columbian Chancay culture clay qero (libation vessel), 11.5 x 13 cm. A.B.: 'Owen (Mapp) and I travelled in the U.S., Central, and South America, for nearly two years, 1977 and 1978. These pieces we collected and found. Ecuador, at the time, had a rule on antique pots, which meant that, (after) showing them to the authorities, if their musea had enough examples of a shape, they allowed it to be taken out of the country. These items arrived legitimately into New Zealand
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Five antique Peruvian clay weaving weights, conical with incised and pigment decoration, largest diameter 4.5 cm. A.B.: 'Owen (Mapp) and I travelled in the U.S., Central, and South America, for nearly two years, 1977 and 1978. These pieces we collected and found. Ecuador, at the time, had a rule on antique pots, which meant that, (after) showing them to the authorities, if their musea had enough examples of a shape, they allowed it to be taken out of the country. These items arrived legitimately into New…
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Two replicas of Pre-Inca Nazca culture double spout vessels, with frog and locust designs, c.1970s. 8.5 x 12 cm, along with three Chancay textile dolls, 1970s replicas of the pre-Columbian funerary figures. A.B.: 'The two small Nazca, pots, superb fakes, bought from the potter himself, in Nazca. Several generations of this potter's family knew where to go into the foothills of the Andes, for their materials. In the 1960s, a French Museum bought a whole series of them, as genuinely 'old'. The Peruvian…
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A pre-columbian Ecuadorian clay bowl, with negative pattern of animals to the interior, 18 x 9.5 cm. A.B.: 'Owen (Mapp) and I travelled in the U.S., Central, and South America, for nearly two years, 1977 and 1978. These pieces we collected and found. Ecuador, at the time, had a rule on antique pots, which meant that, (after) showing them to the authorities, if their musea had enough examples of a shape, they allowed it to be taken out of the country. These items arrived legitimately into New Zealand
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A pre-Columbian Ecuadorian small pottery jar, with negative painted chevron pattern, 13.5 x 9 cm. A.B.: 'Owen (Mapp) and I travelled in the U.S., Central, and South America, for nearly two years, 1977 and 1978. These pieces we collected and found. Ecuador, at the time, had a rule on antique pots, which meant that, (after) showing them to the authorities, if their musea had enough examples of a shape, they allowed it to be taken out of the country. These items arrived legitimately into New Zealand
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An antique pottery jug, with two monkeys modelled to the shoulder, Peruvian coastal region, 13 x 20 cm
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Rice cooker from Lombok of burnished clay, purchased from Dowse exhibition, 1992. 32 x 54 cm. A.B.: 'Paul Winspear, and I mixed the volcanic 'dry'clay, which the Lombok potters brought with them, when The Dowse Art Museum held its Lombok Project Exhibition, so the women could demonstrate their hand building techniques This rice cooker, was one of the few old traditional shapes, used daily, over centuries
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Two Sawankhalok celadon bowls, diameter 150 and 13 cm. A.B.: 'The village potters of South East Asia, close to the Chinese borders, tried to copy the Chinese Imperial ware, made at the time. My love for these recognises the 'aliveness' in their efforts. For me, more human, than the Imperial grandeur
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Five Sawankhalok (Northern Thailand) plates, largest 28.5 x 6 cm. A.B.: 'The village potters of South East Asia, close to the Chinese borders, tried to copy the Chinese Imperial Ware, made at the time. My love for these recognises the 'aliveness' in their efforts. For me, more human, than the Imperial grandeur
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Malcolm Harrison (1947-2007) 'A Sensual Cloak', collage and embroidery, 1980s. 180 x 113 cm. A.B.: 'The Malcolm Harrison wall hanging was bought by me, at an exhibition in Auckland as a mark of respect for him and his art. It is a favourite of mine
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